Fall Creek Intermediate Tech Training 2015

Find this page at DitchThatTextbook.com/FCI

TODAY’S AGENDA

(Subject to change)

• 8:00-9:20 – Teams 5-6, 5-5, 5-3 (11)
• 9:30-10:50 – Teams 5-1, 5-2, 5-4 (11)
• 11:00-12:20 – 6-2, 6-3 (9)
• 1:00-2:20 – 6-1, 6-4, 6-5 (12)
• 2:50-3:50 – All staff session

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Click on any of the following to go directly to it:

• Part 1: The best of the best from FCI
• Part 2: What do you want to learn today?
• Part 3: Making the most of your tech
• About your presenter

 PART 1 — THE BEST OF THE BEST FROM FCI

START HERE! Add an innovative teaching idea to share with your colleagues in the form below.

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Once you’re done, check out everyone else’s ideas below! (Use the scroll bar at the bottom of the spreadsheet to move side to side to see everything.)

PART 2 — WHAT DO YOU WANT TO LEARN TODAY?

Options include (but are not limited to):

• A Day in My Paperless Classroom
• Google Genius: Practical applications of Google Apps
• The Lightning Round: 60 powerful tools in 60 minutes
• From “Blah” to Blog: Online writing for students and teachers
• Connecting Classrooms to the World
• The Classroom Hub: Creating an online home

A Day in My Paperless Classroom

Matt’s conference session resources: A Day in My Paperless Classroom

Other paperless classroom resources:

• Padlet: Online bulletin board where students and teachers can post notes with links, video, etc. (No iTunes but accessible via Safari) (20 useful ways to use Padlet in class now)
• Piktochart: Graphic design tool to help students create infographics, posters, etc. (iTunes: free) (20 ways to create classroom pizzazz with Piktochart)
• WeVideo: Video editing website/app where students can produce video projects (iTunes: free) (20 video projects)
• Kahoot!: Fun review/formative assessment tool in gameshow format (No iTunes but accessible via Safari at kahoot.it) (10 ways to electrify class with Kahoot!)
• Aurasma: Augmented reality app that lays video or images over reality through iPad camera (iTunes: free) (Classroom examples using augmented reality with Aurasma)
• AudioBoom: Record, upload and edit audio and listen to other people’s audio channels (iTunes: free) (15 ways to incorporate audio in class) (Broadcast with Podcasts)

Google Genius: Practical applications of Google Apps

• 6 new free Google tools to upgrade your classroom (Slides Carnival, Photos for Class, Smarty Pins, etc.)
• 15 Google Drawings graphic organizers and how to make your own (NOTE: Google Drawings is not supported on iPad … yet … but these organizers can be created in Google Slides)
• 10 Google Slides activities to add awesome to classes (iTunes: free)
• 6 ways Google Hangouts can make any teacher’s life better (iTunes: free)
• Google tools to become a more organized educator
• 10 ways to take your Google Apps activities to the next level
• 10 great obscure Google tricks for school, life (World Wonders Project, Gone Google Story Builder, A Google A Day, YouTube Time Machine)
• gClassFolders (creates shared folders for your class) and Flubaroo (grades Google Forms quizzes for you) 
• 50 collaborative Google Apps activities (NOTE: Not all are compatible with iPad … but many are!)
• Google Voice in the Classroom (Google Voice = free online voicemail, but better!) (iTunes: free)
• 20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools (similar to the 50 activities above but in more detail)
• 20 Powerful Google Docs Uses (with screencast videos for each one!)

 The Lightning Round: 60 powerful tools in 60 minutes

Click here for full list with summaries. Most tools have iPad apps with links to iTunes.

From “Blah” to Blog: Online writing for students and teachers

Click here for all my best blogging resources.

My best recommendation for a teacher blogging platform: KidBlog (iTunes: free)

Connecting Classrooms to the World

Click here for my best resources to go global with your students.

Skype, Google Hangouts and FaceTime are all iPad-friendly ways to get connected!

 The Classroom Hub: Creating an online home

20 ideas to jump start your class website

Publish! Your quick, easy guide to creating educational websites

Matt’s Spanish class website — trspanish.com

Want something else?

Check out Matt’s conferences page — DitchThatTextbook.com/conferences — for a list of sessions he’s done or can do at conferences. If it’s on that page or if he’s written a blog post about it, he probably has something to share about it!

 Other resources

Image via @MarkHerring

PART 3 — MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR TECH

Resources for this session will be at DitchThatTextbook.com/SAMR

Posts related to this presentation:

Rethinking SAMR, TPACK and using technology well — I used to think of using the SAMR and TPACK tech integration models as “climb as high as you can” models. Now I see them differently.

How high up the edtech ladder do you climb? — Introduction to the SAMR (substitution/augmentation/modification/redefinition) model.

10 ways to reach SAMR’s redefinition level — Redefinition is at the top of the SAMR model, and most educators want to know how they can reach it. This post lists 10 ideas for redefining learning with technology.

The Current State: Educational Technology — Tim Klapdor examines educational technology through the lens of SAMR and the Gartner Hype Cycle.